NOUN | plant | genus Urocystis, Urocystis | a genus of smut fungi belonging to the family Tilletiaceae |
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Meaning | A genus of smut fungi belonging to the family Tilletiaceae. | |
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Synonym | Urocystis | |
Member of | Tilletiaceae, family Tilletiaceae | A family of smut fungi having a simple promycelium bearing the spores in an apical cluster |
Members | flag smut fungus | A smut fungus causing a smut in cereals and other grasses that chiefly affects leaves and stems and is characterized chains of sori within the plant tissue that later rupture releasing black masses of spores |
Broader | fungus genus | Includes lichen genera |
Spanish | género urocystis, genus urocystis, urocystis | |
Catalan | genus urocystis, urocystis |
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